Well done DevTeam, the new sky effects look fantastic (EMF-L sunset over Bandirna)

KTO TASMO (TE by Bloodhound) outbound from Fukuoka

All the best,

Uwe

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Having good fun and enjoying a nice view for any sniper pod user in Lorik’s EMF-L “red sky” campi (day 5).

All the best,

Uwe

More sunset impressions from EMF-L

Hi folks,

some team members have reported issues trying to download & seed the 4.36 torrent using the trusty cross-platform “transmission” torrent client.

I’ve looked into the issue and it might be related to 4.36 being a “hybrid v2” torrent file which transmission doesn’t support (yet) in its current version, however a patch will be included in the next release:

https://github.com/transmission/transmission/pull/1964

If you are having issues downloading BMS 4.36 using transmission please consider an alernative client like vuze or qbittorrent (also cross-platform) which support this format already.

Thanks for your understanding & all the best,

Uwe

And a “BMS on other platforms” section please while we’re at it where we can organize all the info relating to running BMS on WINE, parallels, as a dedicated server and so on?

Thanks for your consideration!

Uwe

compiled & tested the module, works beautifully. You’ll need to recompile it each time the kernel is updated for now, but it’s no biggie and really easy to do.

Cheers,

Uwe

late afternoon / evening strike mission in Lorik’s EMF-L campi “double front”

All the best,

Uwe

Hi folks,

I’ve made some tests with BMS 4.36 on Linux / WINE. After installing Falcon 4.0 using my GOG.com installer version, the BMS installer starts up fine, checksums look ok but as soon as I start the installation process, I get a message about the installer being unable to create the “User/Config” directory and the installer just hangs afterwards until I kill it.

I’ve tried manually creating the User/Config dir in my WINEPREFIX directory (default ~/.wine), but that hasn’t helped, either. The Installer will run but only 16kb are allocated in the bms install directory which is, well, not very much

Wine version: 5.0 (ubuntu / Linux Mint)
Emulated windows version: win7

I’d love to hear of your experiences with 4.36 on Linux.

Cheers & all the best,

Uwe

Antivirus isn’t. I’m still wondering anyone is still using AV software (and even worse, trusting it to do anything useful )

Safe browsing using a decent browser and as safe OS (Linux is a good choice here) and the usual plugins (ublock origin, noscript, privacy badger) and general common-sense usage of the internet will keep you safer than blindly “trusting” any AV vendor and accepting all the negative side effects that AV control over your system brings.

Just my 2c (online since 1989 and I’ve never had any issues with viruses / virii).

Cheers, Uwe

Looks great @Scorpion82, thanks for your hard work!

All the best,

Uwe

@Gayet
do you see textual replies on the screen from the wingie to your commands?

Cheers, Uwe

I managed to fix the compile issue for now by casting the value during assignment in line 309:

.report_fixup = (__u8 * (*)(struct hid_device *, __u8 *, unsigned int *)) winwing_report_fixup,

I hope this won’t break too much Looks like I have all buttons available again.

Cheers, Uwe

I just finished upgrading to Linux Mint 22 and found that the compilation no longer works when warnings are considered errors by gcc. (-Wall)

I opened an issue here:

https://github.com/igorinov/linux-winwing/issues/5

Has anyone managed to compile this module successfully on Linux Mint 22 / Ubuntu 24.0x? I don’t feel like editing the kernel header Makefiles in order to disable those errors that break the compile…

Thanks,

Uwe

Thanks much for the update & your continuing work on foxvox… simply awesome!

All the best & a happy new year to you too mate,

Uwe

Thanks for the update… stellar work!

All the best,

Uwe

@VIPER-0

Great video, thanks for sharing

The mass takeoff (attempt) was fun… could have been better but still, quite the experience

Thanks to everyone who participated in the testing event last night!

Uwe

@cougar56th

I’d love to help with seeding (two VMs available).

Cheers,

Uwe

I didn’t even know you could crank up the FPS to such a high value with the ps eye camera

FWIW have you tried vsync and limiting the display to say 60fps as a test just to make sure the issue is not fps related in any way?

Cheers,

Uwe